Openreach UK Hit with £1.34m Fine for Tragic Death of Engineer
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has been fined £1.34m (inc. costs of £15,858) by the Llandudno Magistrates Court in Wales for breaching Health and Safety laws for staff working near water. The case occurred after one of its engineers – Alun Owen (32) – tragically died after being swept away by a flooded river in October 2020. According to the BBC News, Alun was working on a customer’s broadband and telephone line in the village of Abergwyngregyn, near Bangor, which had recently been...
Brsk Extend FTTP Broadband Build to 2 North West England Towns
Alternative network operator and UK ISP Brsk has today announced that their roll-out of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network is being extended to include 60,000 premises across St Helens in Merseyside, and neighbouring Ashton-in-Makerfield in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The operator – fuelled by an investment of at least £259m – is currently building out its new network across parts of West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, and the West...
O2 UK Refreshes its ‘Like New’ Refurbished Mobile Phone Scheme
Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today “refreshed” their ‘Like New’ scheme, which offers customers the ability to take a refurbished mobile phone alongside a big discount and decent warranty period. The changes are largely said to reflect “huge savings and benefits“. Just to underline that claim of “huge savings“, O2 are celebrating the refresh by offering a limited time discount of £360 on selected mobiles for all customers, as well as an additional £70 upfront saving on a number...
Westcon-Comstor extends Juniper Networks partnership to UK&I and France
LONDON, UK – 4 June, 2024 – Westcon-Comstor, a global technology provider and specialist distributor, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking solutions, into the UK & Ireland and France. The distribution agreement will see Westcon drive adoption of Juniper’s full portfolio of industry-leading AI-Native Networking products and solutions across the new markets, recruiting new channel partners through awareness and...
Spectrum Effect Appoints Shaun McCarthy As President And Chief Revenue Officer
June 4, 2024 – Kirkland, WA – Spectrum Effect® announced today the appointment of Shaun McCarthy as President and Chief Revenue Officer. Shaun will lead Spectrum Effect’s global business strategy, driving worldwide sales and adoption to accelerate customer success and meet the increasing demand for its AI-driven interference analysis and mitigation solution, Spectrum-NET. Shaun brings over two decades of expertise leading sales teams and driving go-to-market strategies across the telecom,...
Astro, Malaysia’s Largest Broadcaster, Selects Amagi and AWS to Transition Playout Services to the Cloud
KUALA LUMPUR — May 31, 2024 — Amagi, the leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV (CTV), deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced its partnership with Malaysia’s leading media and entertainment company, Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (Astro). Astro, in partnership with Amagi, is modernizing systems and infrastructure for the playout and origination of its existing linear channels and playout disaster recovery capabilities and transitioning them to AWS,...
Digicel’s Deep Blue One subsea fibre cable goes live
Kingston, Jamaica – Tuesday, June 4, 2024: Digicel Group is thrilled to announce the activation of its subsea fibre cable, Deep Blue One. This significant investment in international submarine capacity will supercharge connectivity across the Caribbean and South America, particularly benefiting French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. Digicel’s advanced fibre cable network will provide seamless connectivity to the countries it serves, facilitating uninterrupted communication...
Cisco launches $1bn fund for AI startups
News Cisco has made over 20 AI-focused investments and acquisitions in the last several years Cisco has announced that it has launched a $1 billion fund to invest in AI startups in a push to become more dominant in the AI sphere. At the company’s “Cisco Live” event in Las Vegas, CEO Chuck Robbins said that despite a billion-dollar investment being considered small in the AI world, “part of our investment thesis is that there are unique co-development activities that we can enter into with...
New UK Ultrafast Broadband ISP Called Beebu Launches
The UK has no shortage of retail broadband providers, but today another one has been officially launched in the shape of Fareham-based Beebu (BeeBu Telecom Limited), which like a lot of newer entrants appears to be harnessing several of the market’s alternative full fibre (FTTP) network operators. The provider’s current partners are said to include CityFibre, MS3, Freedom Fibre, FullFibre and F&W Networks, although they’re eyeing more partnerships for the near future. “BeeBu full-fibre is...
KPN forms new JV to monetise tower assets
News The deal will see around 60% of KPN’s tower and rooftop assets passed over to the new joint venture with ABP This week, incumbent Dutch telecoms operator KPN has announced the creation of a new joint venture with Dutch pension fund ABP to manage tower infrastructure across the country. The deal will see KPN contribute around 60% of its existing tower and rooftop base station portfolio to the joint venture, with a further 800 sites being added from ABP’s tower subsidiary Open Tower Company...